If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can’t get it together and you don’t know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don’t stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there’s one way. You can’t have any fear.

A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.

Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.